1. (Intro)

2. Think You’re Free

How can you escape
Now you think your free

Little fish swim around his bowl
This is the only world that he knows
And then someone came along and just
flushed him down the toilet
And somehow he ended up in the sea
And he said damn man isn’t it grand your
always part of a bigger plan
Whenever i think it’s two there’s always three

Cause if you think your free
Then you can’t escape

Little fish swimming in the bay
He was captured by a bird of pray (lord how he prayed)
But don’t you know the moment when he owned that we would die
He overcame came his fear and he opened up his eyes
He saw the sky and trees and mountains and the
animals and plants
He had a vantage of the planet which the other fishes can’t
Till the bird lost his grip and he fell down to the sea
And he said damn man isn’t it grand your always a
part of a bigger plan
That nobody in the oceans gonna believe

3. Crumpled Up Napkin

Have I found Jesus? i didn’t know he was missing
But i’m pretty sure he somewhere in this vicinity listening
And i don’t know what happens after death or before birth
But Bob was right about heaven and hell being
right here on earth
And if Jesus is lost we should go check outside
Cause i think i saw him inside of a homeless guys eyes
And if that is what he is then we should both go help him out
Instead of sitting here shoving religion
into eachother’s mouths

Cause when it’s all said and it’s all done
Can you truely love the man with his hand on the gun
Cause when it’s all done and it’s all said
Can you love him even with the barrel staring at your head

And so it was written and so it was written
On a crupmled up napkin on the floor of the kitchen
This bodys only rented and this world is fundamented
And so it was written and so it was written
On a crupmled up napkin on the floor of the kitchen
Said loves really is all you need
so go plant yourself some seeds

The end is near but the beginning is nearer
So grab the people that you love cuz they
will be your clearest mirror
And see the shadow moving in the corner of your eye
And catch those shadows moving in the corner of your eye
Cause a hundred year from now all the people will be new
So there’s really only one important thing for us to do
And it’s not from the thoughts of the things that you can’t
But the echo from the tiny little seed that you plant

Cause when it’s all said and it’s all done
Can you truely love the man with his hand on the gun
Cause when it’s all done and it’s all said
Can you love him even with the barrel staring at your head

And so it was written and so it was written
On a crupmled up napkin on the floor of the kitchen
This bodys only rented and this world is fundamented
And so it was written and so it was written
On a crupmled up napkin on the floor of the kitchen
Said loves really is all you need
so go plant yourself some seeds

4. St. Peter and the Serpent

Sittin on the beach in Sante Teresa
with my old friend St. Peter
He reached out his hand and peeled back the night sky
He pulled it aside like a black velvet curtain
That was studed with tiny little diamonds
He said come let’s go and take a look outside
Floatin on the foam an angel appeared
in the form of a waveand whispered,
“We’re the wave rollin in to the shore we’re alive
But when it crashes there’s an under tow
that’s just as strong as the current
And your journey continues with the ebbin tide”

Jojo stokes the fire with the flute in his hand
I picked up my scattered thoughts i had strewn about the sand
And Mesqolito had desended in the spirit of a dog
And led me off into the jungle fading in the fog
was coming from the breath of serpant all around
unseen but clearly heard
I spin and fall and laugh and cry i hung on every word
He said “i’m the left hand of god
and i’m much harder to understand
While the right hand will coddle you like a child
i will push you to be a man
And all of the troubles in the world will fall upon my name
But if you drown in that mighty ocean
the ocean’s not to blame”

[the leviathan is coming]

Sittin on the beach in Sante Teresa
with my old friend St. Peter
He reached out his hand and peeled back the night sky
He pulled it aside like a black velvet curtain
That was studed with tiny little diamonds
He said come let’s go and take a look outside

5. (Shock)

6. Dead in the Eyes

I no longer see me in your eyes
so either i’m gone or your gone
Or both of us moved on
out of body float on ceilings
speaking nothing, sparing feelings
staring faces, dead in the eye
Killing time before we die

My foot hits the pavement and the concrete don’t give
Not like the soft grass where i used to live
Go down to the corner store to buy a bottled water
Cause the shit from my tap’s like it came from the gutter
Throw my hoodie cause it’s gloomy and cloudy
Put on my headphones and zone out to Rumi
The man behind the counter man i think he’s a saudi
Or some kind of suni he just looks right through me
Homeless man got enough change for a forty
Look at the clock and it’s only 4:30
Avoiding my eye an old lady walks on by
(or) [A void in my eye an old lady walks on by]
She thinks all dreadys are shady and dirty
I go to get a sandwich from the girl at the deli
She reads a book written by Machiavelli
She won’t even chance a glance
Lord it makes me want to cry
why everybody heres looking dead in the eyes

My foot hits the pavement but my toes they can’t feel
How long have i been asleep at the wheel
Lord it into a mirror i don’t know what to do
Cause i can see my eyes are dying too

Oh no one even flinches at the jarring
sound of screaming sirens
a mothers buying cigerettes can’t even hear her child crying
Lady pay attention it’s your own flesh and blood
What will it take to make you wake up other than a Flood
Feeling suffocated all the sounds start to drone
Alone around this crowd i’d rather hide inside my home
So in a rush to go to somewhere else I lost my focus
and now i’m steppin over a homeless man
I didn’t even notice

My foot hits the pavement but my toes they can’t feel
How long have i been asleep at the wheel
Lord look into a mirror i don’t know what to do
Cause i can see my eyes are dying too

7. (Denial)

8. All Good

[PSCHOPHARMACOLOGISTCANEXPIDITEYOURDOSES]

Look we know exactly where you are
Can’t get the lid up off the jar
Not feeling even what this world is offering
Cause suffering is life and all life is suffering
But all the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Can forever be avoided with some brain contortion
so come follow me come let me help you up
Not just half full but really fillin up your cup
– You Have to Laugh – Out Loud – and Plead Insanity
To this alien nation [alienation] and inhumanity
Three little birds sittin on my line
So i put them in a cage and they sing all the time

If you super sad and fragile and accept your own prognosis
Your pychopharmocoligist can expedite your doses
If you want to understand how we say this elated
It’s cause were medicated

It’s all Good
Super sad and fragile and accept your own prognosis
Your pychopharmocoligist can expedite your doses

Please tell me more cause i’ve been depressed
And losing luminescense through self opression
And i guess i only have one question left
And what exactly is this pill?

Well, it’s not just a pill it’s a thought
that’s consisting of all things being perfect
and bad not existing
cause everything negative and dark are lies
And it all goes away if you just close your eyes

But how do you grow if everythings perfection ?
Just throw away your mirror and you have no reflection

But without hate how can love be known ?
Just grab anyone’s hand and you won’t feel alone

But what about injustice and oppression and cancer ?
We don’t ask those questions we don’t like the answers

But what about that soldier face down in the mud ?
With rose colored glasses you can’t see the blood

If you super sad and fragile and accept your own prognosis
Your pychopharmocoligist can expedite your doses

9. (Anger)

10. The Bitter End

All dressed in black blockin traffic causing panic
and the protesters marching on energies manic
and fanatical radicals resisting the mechanical
poisoning of our childrens minds to generate more capital
understand and overthrow, pull them in the under tow,
let them know they can’t cut down the underprivilaged overgrowth
all dressed in black, a rock hid behind his back
and he’s jonesing for the moment when the cops come attack

and he pulls back his hand, and he let’s out a scream,
‘You are forcing your nightmare into my dream!!!”

down by his feet, a young girl dressed in white
sat there praying for peace, but he paid her no mind

he said, “I will find you on the battle line,
and I will fight you to the bitter end,
and I know that Right is on my side,
and I will hold you to the bitter end!”

All dressed in body armor, stead fast inside the clamor
he didn’t become a cop for the money or the glamour,
but he did it to defend the Law and Order and he swore to defend
a dream his father fought and died for off in foriegn wars
“These ungrateful, unpatriotic Hippies are diseased!”
he wouldn’t have to beat them down if they would leave in peace
All dressed in body armor with his helmet and his shiled
and thirstin for the moment when the crowd refuses to yield

and he pulls back his club, and he let’s out a yell,
“You are dragging my heaven down to your Hell!!!”

down by his feet, a young girl dressed in white
sat there praying for peace, but he paid her no mind

he said, “I will find you on the battle line,
and I will fight you to the bitter end,
and I know that Right is on my side,
and I will hold you to the bitter end!”

…as she was trampled under foot
they didn’t see her carried off
in a bright white van with a blood red cross
and as the two soldiers clashed
niether one of them heard
the last breath she whispered
she got in the last word
she said, “forgive them”

11. (Bargaining)

12. (Depression)

13. Welcome Home

This world full of suffering and violence
Lord i’m losing my will to try
I find when i finally find silence
I just hang my head down and i cry, i cry

Welcome home my son
You’ve been down such a long road
Come warm yourself by the fire
and rest your weary bones
welcome home
In your anger joy and sadness you will never alone
The road you walk is a circle and will always bring your home
Welcome home

Give what you can and take what you need
These arms are wide open and here when you need
I know you must go soon so go plant good seeds
And be careful which of the two wolves that you feed

(Give what you can and take what you need)

And all of the harm that ever i done
In the end it was only to me

The Two Wolves

An old Cherokee was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, “A battle is raging inside me … it is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.” The old man fixed the children with a firm stare. “This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.” They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee replied: “The one you feed.”

14. (Acceptance)

15. Third Side of the Coin

Sit right back and you’ll hear a tale let go your apprehension
cause it’s time for the mind to join the self
inside this third dimention
Just gladiators battling on tv talk show drama
Politician preachin drow in dualistic instant karma
New milimiem light gonna shine
blind all of those with a black and white mind
Balance it on end and that’s the thrid side of the coin

Antithesis and thesis are created by the tongue and shattered
words confine like prison bars
turned sideways become wrungs on ladders
Many well intentioned teachers try but they have lied because
I’m not speaking in metaphore becasue
a coin really has three sides
New milimiem light gonna shine
blind all of those with a black and white mind
Balance it on end and that’s the thrid side of the coin

There’s Father and there’s Son but Holy Ghost he has the answer
For bipolar two dimension people spreading 2-D cancer
Take this coin inside your hand and now you’ll never have to doubt it
No more need for fundemented warfare nothing fair about it

16. Activate

Activist, pasifist, catalyst to wag a fist
Throw up your peace signs show me how you manifest
We all know those suffering for apathy are locked in a box
So show ’em that you have the key
Action reaction no satisfacion
Wheels keep spinnin but they get no traction
Buddha and Shiva and the elephant with six arms
All love jesus so put away your fire arms

Oh now people come together
Let’s go down to the gateless gate
Slow down floatin like a feather
Come on superhero it’s time to activate

There’s cable and satelite and many types of kryptonite
Like moths around the firelight
Pull the plug and save your life
so stand up get up jump up and rise
Everybody look at everybody right in the eyes
Sit in the lotus maintain focus
Self disappearin like (whh!) hocus pocus
Swimmin in the deep end and leapin off the high dive
Call out to all bliss junkies now’s the time

17. (The End Again)

18. Monkey on a String

I used to let it run saw that it was havin fun
Thought that it would get tired but it only just begun
Now i’m annoyed with the species as it’s jumpin branch to branch
Or throw a little fieces, or do a little dance
And my mind isn’t steady it’s spinning like a top
Got tangents and they vanish into english or to spanish
And it never feels finished
I can almost touch the Grail
They monkeys in a circle and he’s swallowin his tail
He’s got his buddy’s in a barrel and their arms are locked
I try to get one but only get the whole lot
I see the claws and the fangs and the riots on the way
Lord what i wouldn’t give to get quiet for a day
Devouring itself but it can’t feel the sting
And the thoughts keep on turnin till i think i thought of everything
Got to keep your monkey on a string

19. Be the Change

You shake your fist at the waiting list
And still insist this big cruel world has passed you by
Sand moves fast through the hour glass and still another hour passes
You still just sit there gettin high
And your soul is thin cause everyday’s so long
And you hide inside the thought of what went wrong
Like Sisyphus will push another boulder up that hill
They’ve broken your will
But you thought that it was fine
Thought you were still in line
But your killing all your time
yeah you are killing all your time

Ship got hit sinkin not to be saved
But everybody sat in place while the band still played
Now we’re surrounded by waves and it’s up to our ears
Cause it drowns your motivation, ampiflies your fears

They all died at twenty seven full of drugs insane
So i made a conscious change to make my role models change
Gandhi Dali Lama Mother T and Dr. King
Doesn’t matter what religion they all say the same thing

You gotta be the change you wanna see in the world

I know it sounds strange cause i’m the first to complain
about this world full of depression and these people in pain
But it doesn’t do much to sit around and bitch
If you wanna activate you gotta throw the switch

They all died at twenty seven full of drugs insane
So i made a conscious change to make my role models change
Gandhi Dali Lama Mother T and Dr. King
Doesn’t matter what religion they all say the same thing

20. Guantanamo

Machiaveli Machiaveli then i found a quite compelling
Story that the Prince is telling now becoming foul smelling
Justified and over selling listen to your own gut feeling
Conscious screaming now it’s yelling
Good’s not dealt from dirty dealing

Machiaveli Machiaveliyou can call us yellow belly
But from Bali to New Dehli people see what your revealing
See them rising from their kneeling
waking up from their unfeeling
Machiaveli’s been dispelled by
trading vengence in for healing

Ration the lies so international spies
can rise above the law
while we all close our eyes
Cold war, cold sores, hide behind the closed door
commit the crime that we all know that we would bomb them for

22. From the Sun

23. Save Money – Kill Time

24. Words In My Mouth

Put those words in my mouth and i spit them right out
And your ear suddenly found that you’re hearing how you sound

Don’t you know that sometime soon your
house is gonna fall on down
And nothing that you can do can keep the
walls from crumblin to the ground
And is there something that i could say to
push past your condemnation
pick a hammer and knock away the
cornerstone to your foundation

Oh now here we go living in the prison of our own ego
falling like the wall of Jericho
really nothing short of a miricale
Oh now here we go how do we escape our own ego
black and white and right and wrong and
what are you afraid of that you can’t let go

when you think you’re disconnected
all inside you’re imagination
self fulfilling prophet stop it
leave yourself disinigration
out beyond ideas of Right and Wrong there is a field
I promise that i’ll meet you there
no aromor and no shield

25. Further Down

These obstacle illusions man i know they cause you pain
But poisoning your well, lonely living life in vein
Oh brother please brother please don’t make that sound
Know that there is always further down

The dirty little secrets and the lies you tell yourself
The biggest one to swallow is your not damaging anyone else
oh brother please please don’t make that sound
Know that there is only further down

Lying in the basement thinking there can’t be anymore
You’ve landed that rock bottom but still falling through the floor
And now you can not even trust the solid ground
Cause you know that there is always further down

If we sent you down a rope that could lift you up from harm
Would you stand up be a man and take that needle out your arm
And open up and feel the love that’s always around
Brother please brother please just put it down

26. (Yellow #5)

27. How am I not Myself?

28. Taking Boy

Here’s to the grass that grows through the
cracks of the pavement on the street find the weakness
and defeat the concete
this is your’e mother calling, who you’ve abused and uprooted
chopped down, bruised, polluted, and used any way you’ve
suited

you know that book where that Tree
gives that spoiled little kid
damn near everything he needs
limbs, branches, and leaves
while i’m hear to decree now, that that Tree is me
but now I’m only just a stump!

this self fulfilling Profit Margin
got no way to stop enlarging
Monkeys will piss in the well
where they get there drinking water from
and not even notice the smell…

you say you wanna save the planet but you
know you’re Mother’s planned it so that
She’s not the one who needs saving
so good luck with all of your paving
but you know that youi’ll be sorry when I’m…

gone just like that little punk
who cut down my trunk and carved me up
and sailed away that day i admit i really wish he sunk
cuz don’t forget in the end like destiny
he sat his ass on what was left of me
and sailed off int a strip mall sea
thinking, “Now where are my children gonna play?”

so here’s to the grass tha’s growing throught the cracks
and claim in the name of the Mother
the other side is fighting back
here’s to the grass that’s pushing up high
in that pace we used to call outside

you say you wanna save the planet but you
know you’re Mother’s planned it so that
She’s not the one who needs saving
so good luck with all of your paving
but you know that youi’ll be sorry when I’m…